Comments on: Harvest Project: Homemade Prunes!

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:18:00 +0000

The dehydrator trays fit into a specific kind of dehydrator – I use an Excalibur which I highly recommend, though it is spendy. If you’re just dong dried fruit, one of the round ones will work great!

By: Joervp

Joervp — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:30:00 +0000

Hi, glad I found this! I have plum and apricot trees and my daughters just started making jam because we couldn’t eat the fruit fast enough. This year I was thinking of just drying. But where do you find ‘ dehydrator trays’ , other than the round plastic ones for electric dryers? Are they just stainless racks? Thanks for any help.
Cheers, Joe.

By: Sayward

Sayward — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:33:10 +0000

@ Jackie – Small seeds like cucumber and tomato will be broken down by the bacteria in a compost pile, but large seeds like cherry, plum, or peach pits, will not. They’ll remain in one piece which sort of defeats the purpose of composting, plus you may accidentally end up growing a plum tree!

@ J – Yes exactly, just a bit ‘funny’. I couldn’t figure it out until I realized they’re not plums at all, but prunes!

@ Valerie – I’m so jealous! I want a dehydrator so bad, my friend has an Excaliber that I’m always commandeering for these projects, haha. I’m saving up, but those suckers are expensive!!!

By: Valerie

Valerie — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:55:00 +0000

I am a fruit drying fiend!!! I got a dehydrator for my birthday a few years back with the basic 4 trays. Last year I bought 8 more to make the maximum tower of 12 trays a reality. When I was a kid my aunt would dehydrate fruit and give us all gallon ziploc bags full of fruit in our xmas stockings. She stopped doing it before I turned 10, but now I have continued the tradition and that’s what my extended family gets from me every year. I add a new fruit each year that the family votes on me experimenting with. This year I’m adding pears and the experiments have been going well. I usually do apricots, plums, cranberries, golden delicious apples, and bananas. I got a couple of kiwis from a co-worker and I might give them a try this week.

By: J

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:56:17 +0000

I grew up in a yard with these kind of plums. They taste a bit funny, but still good, although not like plums so much. Very cool project – I love prunes.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:12:29 +0000

Why can’t you compost the pits?